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Caring Worship
Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In a perfect world we might expect that all worshipers would be ready for a worship service of thorough praise and adoration. But that is not the case. Those who come for worship bring with them all the cares, anxieties, and stresses of life in this broken world. All are needy people. Some will find...
A Theological Approach to the Old Testament
Major Themes and New Testament Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The Old Testament has two great themes: creation and covenant. They embrace subthemes: wisdom in the case of creation; Israel's religion and the Davidic covenant under the general umbrella of covenant; and internationalism, which mostly develops the theme of covenant and partly the theme of creation....
The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant
A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
In this groundbreaking book, Michael Gorman asks why there is no theory or model of the atonement called the new-covenant model, since this understanding of the atonement is likely the earliest in the Christian tradition, going back to Jesus himself. Gorman argues that most models of the atonement...
Reading Revelation Responsibly
Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible...
Abide and Go
Missional Theosis in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The Gospel of John would seem to be both the "spiritual Gospel" and a Gospel that promotes Christian mission. Some interpreters, however, have found John to be the product of a sectarian community that promotes a very narrow view of Christian mission and advocates neither love of neighbor...
by Michael J. Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In this new introduction to the Apostle Paul and his gospel, written especially for lay readers, for beginning students, and for those unsure about what to make of Paul, Michael J. Gorman takes the apostle seriously, as someone who speaks for God and to us. After an overview not only of Paul's radical...
What Does the Bible Say?
A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book is a collaboration between a biblical scholar (Mary Ann Beavis) and a practical theologian (HyeRan Kim-Cragg) who are concerned with the way that the Bible is portrayed and interpreted in popular culture, including but not limited to the movies. This concern points to a need for a conversation,...
For the Healing of the Nation
A Biblical Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and "otherness," economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces...
Tamar’s Tears
Evangelical Engagements with Feminist Old Testament Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Evangelical and feminist approaches to Old Testament interpretation often seem to be at odds with each other. The authors of this volume argue to the contrary: feminist and evangelical interpreters of the Old Testament can enter into a constructive dialogue that will be fruitful to both parties. They...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The nature of Kierkegaard's political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings. Exploring Kierkegaard's relevancy for this political-theological moment, this volume offers trans-disciplinary and multi-religious perspectives on Kierkegaard studies and political theology. Privileging...
Embracing Vulnerability
Human and Divine
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Arguments in favor of divine impassibility take many forms, one of which is moral. This argument views emotional risk, vulnerability, suffering, and self-love as obstacles to moral perfection. In Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine, Roberto Sirvent challenges these mistaken assumptions about...
"All Shall Be Well"
Explorations in Universal Salvation and Christian Theology, from Origen to Moltmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Lady Julian of Norwich Universalism runs like a slender thread through the history of Christian theology. It has always been a minority report and has often been regarded as heresy, but it has proven to be a surprisingly...
Arm in Arm with Adolescent Girls
Educating into the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Adolescent girls are filled with passion, excitement, joy, critique, wit, and energy, even as they face and overcome a wide variety of difficult challenges. Some challenges are spirit- and even life-threatening. The stories of more than twenty adolescent girls are put into dialogue with the Apostle...
A Kairos Moment for Caribbean Theology
Ecumenical Voices in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The project of developing a contextual theology for the Caribbean was first articulated in the early 1970s in Trinidad and Jamaica. In the years since, many evangelical churches and theologians in the Caribbean have been ambivalent about the validity of this project, assuming that an emphasis on context...